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June 13, 2009:

The annual RFS members' meeting will start at 5pm in the Marriott's Santa Rosa Room on June 19. (Who is a member? Anybody that either subscribes to the journal, has submitted a paper in the past year, or has paid the annual membership fee.) At 6pm the RFS and BGI will host a reception for all attending the WFAs in the Marriott's Seaview Room. We hope to see you at both events.

June 9, 2009:

MAJOR NEW WEB PAGE ADDITION! The RFS is pleased to announce that it is now accepting and posting on line material to accompany its published papers. If you have material that you would like to make available to the public we encourage you to send them in for posting. Go to the Paper Addenda Guidelines page for directions on how to do so.

If you want to see if an article has material on line (like databases, parameter estimates, program code, or a technical appendix) check the Addenda page. If there is material you would like but we do not have please let us know. Perhaps your request will help encourage the author to then make the material available on line.

We hope this new page and it accompanying files will further help our profession's overall research agenda.

June 3, 2009:

Decisions regarding submissions to the RFS-Yale Financial Crisis have now gone out. If you have not heard from the organizers one way or the other please contact them.

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Turnaround:
Mean: 55 days
Median: 50 days
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Acceptance Rate: 9.31%

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The Financial Crisis
July 11 and 12, 2009
Yale School of Management
New Haven, CT
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 1, 2009

Texas Finance Festival
April 24 and 25, 2009
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
Austin, Texas
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 1

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Forthcoming in the RFS

Variance Risk-Premium Dynamics: The Role of Jumps
by Viktor Todorov

Using high-frequency stock market data and (synthetic) variance swap rates, this paper identifies and investigates the temporal variation in the market variance risk-premium. The variance risk is manifest in two salient features of financial returns: stochastic volatility and jumps. The pricing of these two components is analyzed in a general semiparametric framework. The key empirical results imply that investors\' fears of future jumps are especially sensitive to recent jump activity and that their willingness to pay for protection against jumps increases significantly immediately after the occurrence of jumps. This in turn suggests that time-varying risk aversion, as previously documented in the literature, is primarily driven by large, or extreme, market moves. The dynamics of risk-neutral jump intensity extracted from deep out-of-the-money put options confirms these findings.

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